The United States launched another round of airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen early Saturday morning local time.
The round of strikes comes just one day after an inaugural round of air and missile strikes against targets in Yemen, launched in response to Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea. Two United States officials reportedly announced the Friday strikes, and the U.S. Central Command later confirmed them on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“This strike was conducted by the USS Carney (DDG 64) using Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles and was a follow-on action on a specific military target associated with strikes taken on Jan. 12 designed to degrade the Houthi’s ability to attack maritime vessels, including commercial vessels,” CENTCOM wrote.
The second round of strikes targeted a Houthi radar facility. Another U.S. official told CNN that Friday’s strikes were much more limited in scope than the previous day, only targeting the radar facility. Unlike Thursday’s strikes, which involved the U.K., Friday’s was carried out unilaterally by the U.S.
Though CENTCOM only mentioned one radar station being targeted, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah news network reported “a number of airstrikes” around the capital of Sanaa.
“The American-British enemy is targeting the capital, Sanaa, with a number of airstrikes,” the network announced early on Saturday, local time, though only the U.S. carried out the attack.
CENTCOM made clear in its statement that the strikes “have no association with and are separate from Operation Prosperity Guardian, a defensive coalition of over 20 countries operating in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb Strait, and Gulf of Aden.”
President Joe Biden had threatened to respond if the Houthis continued their strikes on commercial shipping.
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“We will make sure we respond to the Houthis if they continue this outrageous behavior along with our allies,” he said Friday in Pennsylvania.
The Houthis vowed a response after Thursday’s strikes, though the only direct military action was launching an anti-ship missile into the Gulf of Aden, which fell into the sea without hitting anything.
